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Photograph of a group of people standing in front of a church under construction. Behind the group there is a half-built brick wall on which some of the children are standing on. Stacks of large concrete bricks surround the people, mostly in the foreground. The men are dressed in suits and the women are wearing sunday dresses. Handwriting is visible on the back of the photograph; it reads "The Annex under construction" and "Del Rio Annex".

Description:
Photograph of a group of people standing in front of a church under construction. Behind the group there is a half-built brick wall on which some of the children are standing on. Stacks of large concrete bricks surround the people, mostly in the foreground. The men are dressed in suits and the women are wearing sunday dresses. Handwriting is visible on the back of the photograph; it reads "Del Rio- annex in construction".

Description:
Photograph of a group of women standing in front of their church. The women, who are all older, are looking at the camera. They are all wearing long coats and dresses or skirts. Some of the women are holding purses or books. Behind the group, the front door of the light colored church is open, and more people are visible mingling around the entrance. There is a young boy in the foreground running toward the group of women. There is handwriting in both pen and pencil on the back of the photograph that reads, "Lovado en Feb. 1938 Magnolia Auxiliary". There is also stamp that reads, "522".

Description:
Photograph of the backs of nine women sitting in a grassy clearing. On the left-hand side of the image, there are four women sitting on a long bench, and on the right there are five more seated on a platform on the ground. The women are facing three men, who are standing, and a woman who is sitting behind a large trunk. More people are sitting to the side and watching. The background is made up of trees, shrubs, and woodland. There is a handwritten note on the back of the photograph that reads, "San Marcos 1950".

Description:
Photograph of a barren courtyard at the back of a one-story building. There is a sidewalk that circumscribes the area, and at the center there is a small fountain. There are two men wearing suits and sitting in fold-up chairs in the background of the image on the long, covered porch of the building. There is a tall palm tree trunk in the foreground of the image. A faded handwritten note on the back of the photograph reads, "Mc Millan Hall Pres Mex".

Description:
Photograph of the children attending bible school in Beeville, Texas. Written above the picture is "B. School of Beeville - 3 Weeks." Below the picture is written "some of the boys and girls." There are about forty-seven children in the photograph and three adults. The children are of varying ages, with the youngest in the front. They are posing in front of an unidentified building, maybe the church.

Description:
Photograph of two boys walking under a large grape arbor. The boys are in the background walking on a sidewalk toward the camera. The arbor is made of natural logs assembled in a criss-cross pattern. Grapevines are visible on the outside of the arbor. Handwriting on the back of the photograph reads, "Mo- Ranch. Mo-7 Grape-arbor walk Boys coming from class."

Description:
Photograph of a brick manse with a young Mexican family standing on the porch. The front of the building is one long brick wall with a corner at the entrance. The primary wall has three tall windows and a screened door; two of the windows are coupled together. The wall coming out of the corner has two more shorter windows and another screened door. There is a simple wooden deck with no railing that runs along both walls. Stairs leading up to the deck connect to a sidewalk. The front yard is made up of sparse and patchy grass and a few trees and shrubs. The young Mexican family is standing in a group on the deck in front of the two doors. The family consists of a couple and their six young children. Handwriting on the back of the image reads, "Laredo - manse familia Olivares 8-51".

Description:
Photograph of five men building alongside the road in front of the Del Rio Annex. The men are wearing jeans and button down shirts. One man is bent over working on a wagon wheel, while another man watches him with his hands on his hips. There are wooden planks along the road and leading up to the annex. Trees and a house surround the annex on both sides. Visible handwriting on the back of the photograph reads "Del Rio".

Description:
Photograph of a car parked on the street in front of an old church. The street extends from the foreground to the left-hand side of the background. Parallel to the street, there is a wood-slatted church which is closest to the foreground, a small manse, and a large brick church in the background. The manse and the wooden church is separated by clumps of trees, bushes, and shrubs. There is a handwritten note on the back of the photograph that reads, "San Benito 1952 old and new churches, manse in between".

Description:
Photograph of a car parallel parked on the street in front of a Presbyterian manse. There is a large tree situated in between the manse and the car. The manse is elevated from the ground on short stilts. There is a front door and a small porch leading up to it, as well as two front windows behind the tree and two visible at the side of the manse. More houses are visible behind the manse on the left-hand side of the image. There is a handwritten note on the back of the photograph that reads, "New Braunfels, manse".

Description:
Photograph of a car parked on the grass in front of the side of a house. There is a man sitting in the driver's seat of the car. The house is one-story and has a small, covered porch at the front on the left-hand side of the image. There is a road in front of the house, and more buildings are visible in the background. There is a decorative border around the image, and a handwritten note in Spanish on the back that translates to read, "Foglor Parsonage, about 1947 or -8".

Description:
Photograph of a car parked on a winding dirt road in front of two small houses. The first house is on the far left, and the second is in the middle in the background. Both of the house are made of wood and have large open porches with sloping roofs. The car is parked in between the two houses and in front of the second house. There is a child standing with her arms up behind the house in the background. On the right in the foreground, part of another house is visible. Trees and shrubs surround the buildings. Writing on the back of the photograph reads, "Lockhart - showing limited space around ch."

Description:
Photograph of a crowd of people gathered around the entrance of a small brick church. The building has an ornately-shaped roof, two windows, and a dark, open double entrance at the front. There are several cars parked around the building. A sign that translates to read "Presbyterian Church" stands in the front. A neighborhood is visible in the background. There are power lines spanning the entire image in several different directions. There is a handwritten note on the back of the photograph that reads, "San Marcos".

Description:
Photograph of a cars parked along a chain-linked fence on a dirt road. There are six people walking around two of the cars. Across the dirt road there is a small, light colored house with large trees around it. Another small hous can be made out farther in the background; it is covered by trees. In front of the houses there is an electric pole with cables spanning the image. Handwriting on the back reads, "At Presbytery 1953".

Description:
Photograph of three cars in the foreground parked parallel in front of an auditorium building. The cars are parked across the street on the road, and there are more cars behind them in the background. The auditorium building is also in the far background. In front of the auditorium building, there is a flagpole and people in lightly colored clothing heading toward the entrance of the building. On the back of the photograph, there is handwriting that reads, "Labor Camp Auditorium, Harlingen, Texas. B-14 Convención del Valle Instituto de E. B. de V. 5-28-50"

Description:
Photograph of automobiles parked outside of a church. There are three cars parked in front of the entrance, one on the left side of the photograph and two in the foreground on the right side of the image. There is a group of five people walking away from the church on the sidewalk. Behind the church trees are visible.

Description:
Photograph of a cartoon man from a film strip. The man in the cartoon is lying in a bed with his eyes and his mouth wide open. He has a terrified expression on his face, and there are sweat droplets emitting from his head. There is a handwritten note on the back of the photograph that reads, "'Mr. Jones Wakes Up' from the Stewardship filmstrip of that title".

Description:
Photograph of a cartoon steeple from a film strip. There is a sign on the cartoon steeple that reads, "Reorganized As A New Partnership". The church also has several broken windows and a clock on the steeple. There is a handwritten note on the back of the photograph that reads, "From filmstrip 'Mr. Jones Wakes Up'".

Description:
Photograph of a carved concrete slab inset in a brick structure. There is carved writing in Spanish that translates to read, "Presbyterian Church Organized - Oct. 19, 1911, Temple Built - 1952, J.G. Cavazos, Pastor". There is a handwritten note on the back of the photograph that reads, "San Benito Cornerstone of new church".

Description:
Photograph of a roofless brick building under construction. There are rafters that surround the small, one-story building, and several workers are building the skeleton of a future completed roof. There is a row of windows at the side of the building, and it is raised from the ground on short stilts. The wide dirt road in the foreground travels across the front of the building as well as the two small houses next to it on the left-hand side. There is an automobile parked at the side of one of the houses. A handwritten note which reads, "Members Building Taylor Chapel" is inscribed below the image, and a typed caption that reads "The Brills" is visible underneath the writing. There is also a typed note on the back of the photograph that reads, "(illegible) Scott and Penn building church at Taylor, the members helping".

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